Subject: Get on Board: Walkable Communities and Wind-Powered Trains!
From: "Tom Croft" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:05:17 -0400 (EDT)

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July 20, 2017
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Get on Board: Walkable Communities and Wind-Powered Trains!

Dear H,
Who doesn't like trains?  Now that we have a short break from the demolition derby,
we thought it would be fun to pass along some light summer reading about trains 
and train rides:
David Dayen at the American Prospect has a wonderful piece on the revival of a citywide
rail system in LA.  In "The Great Los Angeles Revolt Against Cars," he cites the
 incredible blue-green coalition that won the popular referenda and decades long
 campaign to raise $120 billion for 37 light rail, subway, bus rapid transit, bike
and highway improvement projects.  These projects are helping to transform LA, guaranteeing
local production, local hiring and affordable housing in the process.
Patrick Doherty, our Heartland friend in Cleveland, has a short piece on building
walkable communities, enabled by strategic impact investments and new inner city
 rail and trolleys (remember those?), etc.  This piece, "How investors can mobilize
against climate change" originally ran in GreenBiz.  Patrick is working to stand
 up a financing mechanism to build future city transit projects.
Finally, in "Dutch Trains Are World's First to Run on 100% Wind Power," Lorraine
 Chow of EcoWatch describes the amazing transformation of Dutch rail to wind power
provided by Eneco, a sustainable energy supplier (which counts among its financing
partners the PRI signer Rabobank).
So, as we've reached mid-summer, we leave you with this wind rhyme...
The pessimist complains about the wind;
the optimist expects it to change;
the realist adjusts the sails.
- William Arthur Ward
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The Great Los Angeles Revolt Against Cars
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L.A. voters have chosen to tax themselves to build a citywide rail system. Can rail
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On May 20, 2016, residents of downtown Los Angeles boarded a passenger rail car 
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which traveled practically the same route before the line was shut down in 1953.
 "My grandparents talked about going to the beach on dates from Mid-City," says 
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. "I wanted to do that for my grandkids."
Denny Zane was on the Santa Monica platform at 4th Street and Colorado Avenue that
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had been so sure the new line would get built that they bought space for a maintenance
yard at Bergamot Station, temporarily leasing it out as an arts center. Twenty-six
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How investors can mobilize against climate change
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By Patrick Doherty on GreenBiz.com
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Dutch Trains Are World's First to Run on 100% Wind Power
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The Netherlands, aka Windmill Country, is now operating 100 percent of its electric
trains with wind energy.
As of Jan. 1, 600,000 daily train passengers have been traveling completely carbon
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